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President Duterte’s use of Bisaya is a push back against Imperial Manila’s dominance. But it is also creating new hierarchies of language of its own.

PoP reviews an important new book on the relationship between feminism and visual art in Indonesia

Revolutionary music can be a window into the social foundations of Myanmar’s Ethnic Armed Organisations.

President Duterte's trust rating lies at 89% in Mindanao. It's time to listen to the voice of the other 11%.

A proposed new law on special economic zones would create enclaves in which key workers' rights and environmental protections are absent, or go unenforced.

The first in a series of podcasts providing a snapshot of Malaysia in the aftermath of GE14.

Satirists cannot beat Duterte in his own game of telling jokes and performing in the theatre of the absurd.

The first in our series of perspectives from young writers from Mindanao on two years of Dutertismo.

The Supreme Court’s ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno was not just a case of discriminatory legalism or unconstrained democracy. It is not democratic at all.

Duterte's anti-drug and anti-loitering campaigns have weaponised a 'cleanliness' aesthetic to deadly effect.

Do political dynasties hold back The Philippines' economic development? Nicole Curato investigates this question with Assoc Prof Ronald Mendoza.

Illiberalism at home, and pro-market ideologies abroad, are putting pressure on Southeast Asian civil society organisations' financial health.